If the answer is yes then start talking to your suppliers! Fish & Pips signed up to our pledge system last winter. The focus for the first year was to create a baseline of waste. By weighing waste they now have a figure for food, plastic, recycled and non recycled waste created by each guest […]
Author Archives: Gavin Fernie-Jones
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Apr
Apr
Always wanted to repair your own clothing but don’t know where to start? Lucky for us, One Tree seamstress Gina has made us some videos outlining basic repair techniques: wool darning; a trouser patch; and repairing an inside seam. And it wouldn’t be #VirtualFixIt without Gina! Without her help, the first Fix It events would never have […]
We’re all probably a bit fed up of receiving and rarely reading newsletters. One Tree’s “Delete After Reading” is a newsletter with a difference though. It’s written weekly by Andy Davies, who creates and manages all our digital platforms. Andy was integral in making sure the One Tree project got off the ground. He’s also […]
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Nov
Nov
Here’s a sneak peak of some of our repaired ski clothing. Soon to be available online at One Sleeve at a Time. We’ve got hundreds of repaired, carbon neutrally delivered, tree planting, ski clothes being loaded on to our website as we type. How does it work? We receive warrantied clothing from our carefully vetted […]
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Apr
Apr
125kg of clothing repaired – resulting in a saving of 2,900kg of emissions 57,302 trees planted 700kg of kit swapped and given new life – that swapped ski gear has saved an estimated 16.28 tons of carbon emissions. The “Fix It” events have gone down a storm. Big thanks to all those involved, and an […]
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Apr
Apr
We’ve been fundraising through our “Fix It” events in Courchevel, Meribel and Morzine. By keeping ski gear out of landfill through our repair station and running “Bring and Buy” rails of donated clothing, we’ve been able to raise funds that have been used to plant trees. We’ve started off in two locations, the first here […]
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Apr
Apr
One Tree at a Time is an eco collective operating across the French Alps, set up to encourage independent ski resort businesses to make small adjustments to the way they operate, in order to reduce their environmental impact. After realising that we could bring about big changes at our own store, The Boot Lab, we […]